Scientific Programme
21st june 2007
8.15  Welcome and Opening
THE MULTIFACETED BREAST CANCER:
MOVING TOWARDS MOLECULAR PHENOTYPING

Chair: Giuseppe Viale
Rapporteur: Giancarlo Pruneri
8.30  Evolution of pathological definition of breast cancer
Suzanne A.W. Fuqua
8.45 The special case of HER2-positive breast cancer
Giuseppe Viale
9.00 Specific approach to basal-like breast cancer
Angelo Di Leo
9.15 Stem cell hierarchy in human mammary gland and origin of breast cancer
René Villadsen
9.30 Discussion
9.40  SPOTLIGHT:
Prevention of breast cancer: new insight
Andrea Decensi
TUMOR STEM CELLS: RETHINKING BREAST CANCER
Chair: Salvatore Pece
Rapporteur: Giuseppina Bonizzi
10.00  Stem cells and their particular features
Christophe Ginestier
10.20  Reality or science fiction: targeting the stem cell
Gilbert H. Smith
10.35  Coffee Break
11.10  Stem cell and breast carcinogenesis
Salvatore Pece
11.30  Discussion
11.45  LIVE SURGERY WITH COMMENTARY
Speaker: M. Intra
R.O.L.L.
Nipple sparing mastectomy
12.45  Lunch
INFLAMMATION & IMMUNITY
Chair: Alberto Mantovani
Rapporteur: Elisabetta Munzone
13.45  Progression of breast cancer: interaction of integrin receptors and pro-angiogenic factors
Ruth Lupu
14.00  Metronomic treatments, suppression of inflammation, and regression of cancer
Francesco Bertolini
14.15  Immunity to breast cancer antigen vs. thyroid antigen
Wei-Zen Wei
14.30  Active immunisation and treatment of breast cancer
Giuseppe Curigliano
14.45  Discussion
15.00  SPOTLIGHT:
St. Gallen 2007: “First aim at the target…”
Aron Goldhirsch
  CHEMOPREVENTION
Chair: Andrea Decensi
Rapporteur: Bernardo Bonanni
15.20  Other new indications for raloxifene?
Leslie Ford
15.35  Should we change trials with aromatase inhibitors for prevention?
Victor G. Vogel
15.50  Fenretinide as a preventive drug in young women
Bernardo Bonanni
16.05 Discussion
16.20  Coffee Break
IMAGING OF BREAST CANCER: CURRENT AND FUTURE METHODS
Chair: Massimo Bellomi
Rapporteur: Chiara Trentin
16.45 The innovations in ultrasound
Giorgio Rizzatto
17.00  The role of magnetic resonance
Sylvia Heywang Köbrunner
17.15  Looking for local recurrences and distant metastases with PET
Giovanni Paganelli
17.30  Molecular imaging of the breast
Bertrand Tavitian
17.45  Discussion
18.15  Satellite Symposia